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analyzed consciouness into its basic elements and investigates how these elements are related

functionalism

investigates function or purpose of consciousness

William James

1842-1910 founder of functionalism

Edward Titchener

1892 founder of structuralism

Wilhelm Wundt

German (1832-1920) U of Leipzig, founder of psychology, def. psych as study of conscious experience

introspection

careful, systematic observation of one's own conscious experience

natural selection

inherited characteristics that provide a survival or reproductive advantage are more likely than alternative characteristics to be passed on to subsequent generations and thus become "selected" over time